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{{trope}}
{{quote|'''Sam''': How many dying wishes are you going to get?<br />
'''Dean''': As many as I can squeeze out.|''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'', "The Kids Are Alright"}}
Something you request right before you die. Sometimes offered to you by your executioner, in which case you might ask for something seemingly innocuous, but pivotal to your narrow escape [[Clear My Name|stratagem]] or even [[Thanatos Gambit]]. You might also be offered one last choice of dish which isn't good for escape but at least you die full. And you might ask them to [[Get It Over With]], which tends to be not what they expect. A common comedy version is asking to not be killed.
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See also [[One Last Smoke]] for a character indulging a charming partiality one last time.
You can also transfer your responsibilities to someone else with your last breath. Asking someone to take care of your family, [[Bring News Back|deliver a message]], [[Best Served Cold|avenge you]], or generally [[Take Up My Sword|keep up the good fight]] is almost playing low though, as a deathbed promise even by request, is very hard to refuse and nearly [[I Gave My Word|unbreakable]] -- even if [[What You Are in
Occasionally a near-death scene will be faked, in order to get someone to agree to something; most often played for comedy.
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{{examples}}
== [[Anime and Manga]] ==
* Belphegor offers this to Rudolf in ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro
* Gren from ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]''. He knows he'll be dead by before the end of the episode, so he asks Spike to fulfill his dying wish by towing his ship into orbit and letting him float off in the direction of Titan, the moon he wished to see one last time.
{{quote| "I won't be able to make it anyway. I figure dying on the way there would be the next best thing."}}
* [[Bleach]]: A dying Hisana Kuchiki asks her husband Byakuya to find her sister Rukia and adopt her into his family 50 years before the story begins.
* In a late episode of ''[[After War Gundam X
== [[Comics]] ==
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== [[Film]] ==
* [[James Bond (
** In ''[[
** ''[[
** In the original "Casino Royale" Jimmy Bond (Woody Allen) is in front of a firing squad, and requests a last cigarette, which is a bomb he throws at the firing squad. This distracts them which allows him to climb over the wall behind him. Of course, behind that wall is another firing squad performing another execution at that very moment.
* Subverted in ''[[Wild Wild West (
* Rick O'Connell to a nameless guard in the recent version of ''[[The Mummy Trilogy|The Mummy]]''.
{{quote| Any last requests?<br />
Yeah, loosen the rope and let me go. }}
* ''[[The Mask (
* ''[[
{{quote| Carl: I'll give you a break. Where wouldn't you like to be shot?<br />
Nick: South America. }}
* In the first ''[[
{{quote| Frank: Can I... have the gun?<br />
Villain: No! }}
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* Near the end of ''[[Independence Day]]'', when Russell is about to perform a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] he asks an officer to tell his children that he loves them.
{{quote| Russell: Please do me a favor, tell my children I love them very much.}}
* ''[[Flash Gordon (
* "[[Spider
* ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]''. Eddie Valiant asks Judge Doom to grant one to Roger before "dipping" him. Doom agrees, and Eddie gives Roger a double shot of bourbon. This causes Roger to do his "steam whistle" impersonation, which distracts Doom and the weasels enough for Eddie and Roger to escape.
* [[Tron]]: Ram's [[Famous Last Words]]. "Flynn, help Tron..."
* In ''[[Die Hard
== [[Literature]] ==
* In [[Poul Anderson]]'s ''[[The Broken Sword]]'', the dying hero's last request is for a [[Last Kiss]].
* In [[Ben Counter]]'s ''[[Warhammer 40000]] [[
* In [[Star Wars
* [[
* In ''[[Les Misérables]]'', Eponine asks Marius to kiss her on the forehead after she's dead. He obliges.
* In Suzanne Collins's ''[[The Hunger Games]]'', Rue asks Katniss to sing for her. Despite not singing for years, Katniss comes through.
* In the opening chapter of the first book of [[
* "Look at me..." {{spoiler|Snape}}'s [[Last Words]] to [[Harry Potter|Harry]], he wants Lily's eyes to be the last thing he sees.
* In [[John C. Wright]]'s ''[[The Golden Oecumene
* In [[The Royal Diaries|Kristina, The Girl King]] her Aunt Katrina's last wish is for her to marry her cousin Karl.
* In ''The Heaven Tree'' by Edith Pargeter (better known as [[Ellis Peters]] of ''[[
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* In ''[[
** Later on {{spoiler|Wesley's last request is for Illyria to shapeshift and pretend to be the deceased Fred}}, and it (she?) complies.
* In the last episode of ''[[Flight of the Conchords]]'', the [[Imagine Spot]] song features three Russians played by Bret, [[Stalker
* One episode of ''[[Reno 911]]'' featured a injured and bleeding Junior being held by the new recruit while they await an ambulance. He seems like he's dying so she agrees to sleep with him if he pulls through. They keep talking and realize they are, in fact, cousins. As the ambulance arrives, Junior hops to his feet (not nearly as injured as he was leading on) and she finds herself shocked and disgusted that he intends to hold her to agreeing to have sex with him.
* In [[Tin Man (TV series)|Tin Man]], the Mystic Man's direct order to Cain to protect DG "at any cost" becomes this.
* ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'' TOS episode "The Obsolete Man". The title character is about to be executed by the State for having an obsolete job: being a librarian. He is allowed to choose the method of his execution, which he takes advantage of to show how cowardly and weak the State is.
* More than one episode of ''[[
* On ''[[Las Vegas]]'' Cooper and Piper's [[Backstory]] involves her father, his best friend and war buddy, requesting him to look after his recently-born daughter (Piper) just before he died in the conflict they were involved in.
* On ''[[Torchwood]]'', {{spoiler|Ianto asks Jack not to forget him, and Jack tells him he never could.}} Still up in the air as to whether Jack keeps his promise.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* In ''[[
* In ''[[Disgaea]]'', the dying {{spoiler|king asks Etna to raise his son to become the next overlord.}}
** After [[Taking the Bullet]] for Valvatorez in ''[[
* Governor Dorr of Palmacosta in ''[[
* In the finale of the Dark Brotherhood questline of ''[[The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim]]'', {{spoiler|Emperor Titus Mede II asks you to consider killing the man who contracted the hit on him in the first place. It's more an optional objective than anything.}}
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